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  The law, legal institutions and the protection of land rights in Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire: developing a more effective and equitable system

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2007

  This paper provides an analysis of the effectiveness and equitability of West African judicial, legal and administrative institutions for:providing accessible dispute resolutionprotecting the security of the urban and rural poor to hold and use land.The authors compare legislation of customary and non-state regulatory institutions in Ghana, with the greater Pluralism of Côte d’
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  Regulating the use of genetic resources between international authorities

  Fridtjof Nansen Institute, 2006

  A large number of stakeholders are involved in the use of and the international transactions with genetic resources.
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  The Millennium Villages Project: a new approach to ending rural poverty in Africa?

  Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 2006

  The Millennium Villages Project (MVP), an initiative of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, is an attempt at an integrated and bottom-up approach to getting African villages out of the poverty trap. It involves massive injections of capital targeted at, presently, a handful of villages, combining agricultural support with health, infrastructure and education interventions.
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  Land rights reform and governance in Africa

  United Nations Development Programme, 2006

  The main argument of this paper is that insecurity of land tenure is a socio-political condition that can be made and unmade. This discussion paper focuses on customary land rights, particularly in the African context.
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  The Movement of the Landless (MST) and the juridical field in Brazil

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2005

  This working paper focuses on the Movement of the Landless (MST) and the various legal strategies used to redefine property law in Brazil.
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  Decentralisation in the agricultural sector in Malawi: policies, processes and community linkages

  Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2006

  The government of Malawi instigated a decentralisation programme in 2001 which involved devolving power and resources to local assemblies, with the District Assembly level playing a paramount role.
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  Institutional bottlenecks for agricultural development: a stock-taking exercise based on evidence from sub-Saharan Africa

  OECD Development Centre, 2006

  This paper presents a framework to analyse institutional bottlenecks for agricultural development in sub-Saharan Africa. It identifies key institutional issues for agriculture, and finds that the historically poor performance of African agriculture can be attributed not only to a lack of natural resources and extractive policies, but also fundamental institutional bottlenecks.
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  State intervention for food price stabilisation in Africa: can it work?

  Programme of Advisory and Support Services to DFID, 2005

  This paper discusses the options for the stabilisation of the prices of staple foods principally in Eastern and Southern Africa. It addresses three broad questions: Why is the stabilisation of food prices desirable? What is technically feasible?
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  Institutional innovations and water management in Office du Niger (1910-1999) : the long failure and new success of a big irrigation scheme

  Groupe de recherche et d'échanges technologiques, 2002

  Can economic liberalisation boost irrigation production and on which conditions? This report takes the case of the Mali ‘Office du Niger’ irrigation scheme, and analyses how it was transformed from a technical and financial failure to a modern success story.The gravity-fed Office du Niger irrigation scheme was created in 1932.
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  The effects of decentralization on Kenya’s forestry sector: cases from forests studied by the IRFI collaborating research centre in Kenya

  Kenya Forestry Research Institute, 2004

  Decentralisation and devolution have become dominant themes in the management of natural resources in the less developed countries.

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